Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Above us the sky of ideas, within us consciousness and in between: religion as a component of socio-cultural reality. In his sociological outline of religious evolution, Volkhard Krech unfolds the notion of religion as communication that arises and takes place between people. In his analysis of the differentiation of the religious, with reference to evolutionary theory, systems theory and a semiotically informed communication theory, he moves in the...